Those of you who heard my interview a couple of weeks back with Andrew Riley and Duane Lester from RFC Radio have, no doubt, like me, been waiting for the debut.  Well, wait no more!  Today’s the day.  If you just want to listen, click on the widget over to the Right (I love saying that). Â...

It’s interesting to watch any person or group of people wrestle with hard truths about themselves. If you happen to be that person or in that group it goes beyond interesting and can hit “painful” rather rapidly! Yet truthful and legitimate self evaluation is both healthy and vital...

At Tennessee News Platoon, in response to a posting of Tennessee House Rep. Susan Lynn’s response to the release of a GOP House Caucus internal memo, a commenter identifying himself as Elmer Gantry tries to either besmirch Lynn’s character or redeem Williams’s character or both. Yo...

We are in trouble as the big three - Comcast, AT&T and Time-Warner - try to turn the Internet into the equivalent of the cell phone bill system.  They want to begin metering bandwidth used by you, and me and the next guy or gal. One of the problems with capitalistic greed is that once anyth...

My cable high speed Internet access stinks of late.  It appears that Comcast has finally started slowing down certain types of content.  In return, they have against reduced service and hiked prices higher into the stratosphere.  AT&T, for whom I have no love loss, has finally str...

You know what I am talking about, right?  The accelerator pedal in our cars during times of high gasoline prices.  The prodigious use of the accelerator pedal now basically leads to less money on which to live. And, the biggest problem is not so much that what I do only affects me.  W...

We talk about carpet commutes and work-life balance and blending, and in this I get a lot of resistance.  I get emails daily as to why some lawyer or some firm just cannot do it, or how it is just not practically possible.  Or, how my practice is an anomaly.  Well, it is not.  So...

For those of us that spend inordinate amounts of time online, there is a new danger out there for those foolish enough to browse without practicing “Safe Surfing”. Increasingly, the potential for porn to be stored on your computer’s hard drive without your knowledge or consent is b...

Lyndon Johnson use to pound on his desk and exclaim, "I hate war"!  Well, I am here to tell you that this Texan hates mail.  Apart from the fact that I have become good friends with many of the postal workers over the years, I do not like going to the post office.  I have tr...

The US standard railroad gauge (distance between the rails) is 4 feet, 8.5 inches. That's an exceedingly odd number. Why was that gauge used? Because that's the way they built them in England,and English expatriates built the US railroads. Why did the English build them like that? Because the first ...